What GeoScreen Is — and What It Isn't GeoScreen produces a preliminary desk study. It is not a BS 5930:2015-compliant desk study (as clearly noted in the report itself), but a fast, consistent, data-driven starting point — something to have in hand when first considering a site, before committing to the cost of a full
I've spent nearly twenty years in the ground — boreholes, trial pits, desk studies, risk assessments, planning submissions. And over that time, one issue kept coming up again and again. In construction, ground risk is one of the biggest sources of cost and uncertainty. Get it right early — before land is acquired, before planning
Ground risk is one of the most underestimated challenges in property development. When we first wrote about this back in June, GeoScreen screened for nine geohazards, across England only. Since then the platform has grown: two further geohazards have been added — surface water flood risk and aggressive ground conditions — a separate Source Protection
